[[Notes]] - Topics: [[Productivity]] - People: [[Sean Plott]] - Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1uazZjExmo --- ## Summary - DO STUFF. - By very clear to yourself what the tangible goal and things to do are. - [[The goal isn't to become motivated, confident, or happy. The goal is to make yourself do stuff.]] - By HYPER FOCUSED on what you need to do. And do it. - Create [[Void time]] for yourself to focus and remove self-distractions. [[Embrace the void]]. - Avoid having conflicting modes/jobs (e.g. maker, evaluator, decision maker) overlap and interfere until you are already deep in your creative process. - [[Give yourself permission to do things]]. - [[You have 1000 bad drawings inside you. That's just you getting it out of your system.]] - DO STUFF. ## Notes ### Obvious/most important qualities - The number one quality that a published author needs to have is that they write a lot. - Be as not abstract as humanly possible. What do you need to do to achieve the outcomes that you want? For example, if you want to run a marathon, then you need to run. If you want to lose weight, you have to eat less and work out more. ### DO THINGS - "You literally need to do sh!t."... "You have to do things". - You don't need to get motivation in order for you to do things. - You don't need to experience anything happy while you're doing things. - "You can be, if you're an author, sitting down and writing and going, 'I hate this, I hate this, I hate this'... As long as you're typing stuff, you're going to be more successful than someone who doesn't really type very much but always has a great time doing it." - Be HYPER FOCUSED on what the GOAL is in the first place. - [[The goal isn't to become motivated, confident, or happy. The goal is to make yourself do stuff.]] - [[I am here, and all of my dreams and aspirations are there. And the only thing between these two is a bunch of work.]] - The doing of things is what we care about. "It doesn't need to be pleasurable. It needs to occur. And I just made it occur". - "The person who made the high quality thing... They made 30 pieces of hot garbage, and they're showing you the 2 good things.". [[You have 1000 bad drawings inside you. That's just you getting it out of your system.]] ### How to start - Create a space where NOTHING HAPPENS. You need to create this [[Void time]]. To embrace solitude. To avoid distracting yourself. - Getting in the zone for work is about learning how to turn off and quiet the voices in your head and to pay attention. - The first thing you need to figure out, is how do you make yourself do stuff. To literally start making stuff. - "I want you to make wrong things. I want you to make terrible things. ... [[The goal output is how do you make yourself do things]]". ### Scheduling - Have different persons in your brain. Schedule and slip into these different persons mode. For example, you can have a "DECISION MAKER", a "DO'ER", and an "EVALUATOR" modes. - Avoid having these modes overlap until you are deep enough in your creative process. - When you're in "do'er" mode... Don't question. Don't evaluate. Don't edit. Just do. You are allowed to do multiple versions - to make more stuff. You're not allowed to stop making. - "Splitting these up deliberately is very helpful, to [[Give yourself permission to do things]]."